Will Smith Quotes

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

Acting is what I do with who I am.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.